[pulseaudio-discuss] Failure to connect Sony headsets

[João Paulo Rechi Vita]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
<luiz.dentz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joao,
>>
> Ive pushed the fix, at least MW600 reconnects properly.
>

Thanks, I tested it with my MW600 and it is working great! I'll let
you know once I get results from QA with the other headsets.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:08 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 08:41 -0700, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
>> My initial thought is that module-card-restore does more harm then
>> good for UX with Bluetooth headsets, actually. It sure was useful when
>> module-bluetooth-policy did not exist, but I think a good user
>> experience is based on dynamically adapting according to which streams
>> are active at a certain moment, instead of user input. This is mostly
>> covered by module-bluetooth-policy + module-role-{cork,ducking}, but I
>> don't think anything switches the profile to A2DP when there is a
>> "high-quality" stream playing if module-card-restore initially set the
>> profile to headset_head_sink. Maybe this is more of a UI bug and a
>> user-focused UI should not expose means for the user to manually
>> select the profile, which is aligned with a previous comment from
>> Tanu:
>>
>> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 4:57 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
>> >
>> > If module-bluetooth-policy is sufficient, then module-card-restore
>> > won't do anything anyway, because you never set the profile manually.
>> > If you ever set the profile manually, that's an indication that module-
>> > bluetooth-policy isn't always good enough.
>>
>> Still, I think the general user will only manually change the profile
>> either if things go wrong for some reason, or before PulseAudio 12,
>> because HSP/HFP was selected by default. If they leave the setting on
>> the "wrong profile", it affects their experience next time using the
>> headset, despite if it is right afterwards or months later, or if the
>> headset has been removed and paired with a different machine in the
>> meantime. Again, it may be a UI issue after all, but comparing to
>> Android/iPhone (which is what a lot of users are likely to have
>> previous experience with), there is not even a way for users to
>> manually set the active profile for headsets. They can enable/disable
>> a profile for an specific headset on Android tho, which gives them
>> some sort of control. I don't think there is any client API for
>> disabling profiles on cards, but maybe that could be a good
>> alternative?
>
> I agree, it's not nice that setting the profile once will interfere
> with automatic configuration forever. Do you want to make a patch for
> module-card-restore that adds an option (enabled by default) for
> disabling profile restoring for bluetooth?
>

Yes, I can do it.

> Offering a UI for disabling profiles doesn't seem like a better
> alternative to me, at least for this problem. If there's some other use
> case for disabling profiles, I'm not against the idea in principle.
>

I was thinking about users that only want to use their headset for
HSP/HFP with VoIP applications, for example. But maybe
module-stream-restore is enough in this case and I'm over-engineering,
lets just leave this case aside for now.

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